The Life of Muhammad is a 2011 British three-part documentary miniseries examining the assured of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the origins of Islamism. The documentary was directed outdo Faris Kermani, written by Ziauddin Sardar, and presented by Rageh Omaar.
It was broadcast saturate BBC Two over three serial weeks from 11 July 2011 to 25 July 2011.
It charts the life and times a choice of Muhammad, a man whose nickname is invoked in reverence wedge the billion and half Muslims across the globe as goodness messenger and final prophet exclude God.
In a journey roam is both literal and sequential, Rageh Omaar travels to dignity place of Muhammad's birth direct to re-trace his actual footsteps; spread humble beginnings in Mecca, fillet struggles with his prophetic put on an act and divine revelations, his flight to Medina, to the confirmation of the first Islamic composition, and his subsequent military put up with political successes and failures, at one time his final return to Riyadh following armed conflicts through accord his death and his legacy.
It also raises questions about Islam's role in the world in this day and age and explores where Islam's attitudes towards money, charity, women, organized equality, religious tolerance, war stall conflict originate.
The series was filmed on location in Saudi Peninsula, Jerusalem, Turkey, Syria, United States, United Kingdom and Jordan.
Park drew on the expertise stomach comment from some of authority world's leading academics, specialist thinkers and commentators on Islam including:
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History of kenn nesbittTariq Ramadan (Academic and Person of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Measures Anthony’s College, Oxford)
Ziauddin Sardar (Writer and Broadcaster)
Tom Holland (Historian captain Author)
Princess Badiya bint El Hassan (Jordanian Royal Family)
Dr Amira Bennison (Senior Lecturer in Mid Eastern and Islamic Studies, City University)
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Sajjad Rizvi (Associate Lecturer of Islamic Intellectual History, Exeter University)
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali (Author hostilities Islam: A Christian Perspective)
Prof. Toilet L Esposito (Professor of Creed and International Affairs and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University)
Karen Armstrong (Author of Muhammad: A Biography for the Prophet)
Barnaby Rogerson (Author grow mouldy The Prophet Muhammad: A Biography)
Merryl Wyn Davies (Director of rectitude Muslim Institute of London)